What everyone needs to understand is that the ‘real world’ now only has meaning as a stage on which aspects of the digital world play out. It’s where you take selfies, photograph food for Instagram, demand Szechuan sauce, elect meme presidents. The ‘real world’ is now secondary.
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The digital world has been stealthily colonising the ‘real world’, subtlety changing the meaning of physical spaces and practices, so that they’re no longer independent of the digital, but have rather gained a new meaning that is irreversibly bound to the digital.
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The digital world ironises the ‘real world’, it makes physical spaces the site of dares and jokes and memes to be used as social currency in the digital world. The digital world becomes real - the primary social space - while the physical world becomes a stage.
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The one barrier we have yet to cross is the largely internet based political and meta political movements crossing into "irl" "meatspace" with forms of viable praxis, this has yet to be achieved, institutions of the irl cathedral still largely matter...
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The internet for all of its bleeding into and taking over of meatspace, has created this odd impotency for everything, as we are more digitalized we are more within our own self-shell, and nothing truly has a long shelf life in meat space coming out of the digital,not even memes.
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